Attend an Open Workshop(s):

During the fall and spring, we offer workshops open to ALL UT students, staff, faculty, and administrators. Email gsc@austin.utexas.edu for more information. You can see our semester schedule and RSVP to an open workshop here.

Request a Workshop:

If you would like to request one (1) or more workshops or a workshop specific to your needs, for your faculty, staff, and/or students, in or out of the classroom, please fill out a workshop request form and we will follow up with you in 3 – 5 business days.

In this intersectional workshop for LGBTQIA+ and non-LGBTQIA+ identified people, you will learn and practice a series of vocabulary tools for your support of LGBTQIA+ justice in your classrooms, offices, and conversations. You will learn and practice describing the differences between assigned sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and romantic orientation; you will reflect on your own identities. You will practice identifying – and enacting bystander intervention in – microaggressions around gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and romantic orientation. And you will set your intention for inclusive language (including pronouns) for your communities. You will also learn about existing and necessary campus resources for LGBTQIA+ people.

NOTE: Attend this workshop on its own or continue on to Practicing Allyship (Ally Toolkit Part 2) with the option to join Allies in Action.

In this workshop for LGBQA+ and straight people as well as for TQIA+ and cisgender people (and people whose identities overlap), you will learn and practice interrupting systemic oppression of LGBTQIA+ people in your classrooms, offices, and conversations. You will learn about and practice identifying how multiple systems of oppression (including racism, ableism, classism, and sexism) overlap with heterosexism and cisgenderism on our campus. You will reflect on your own social identities, your relationship with systems of oppression, and your roles in interrupting oppression to make campus safer and more welcoming for all LGBTQIA+ communities.

**At the end of this workshop, you will have the opportunity to sign the Ally Program Pledge and receive the Ally Card.**

Note: This workshop is available only for people who self-select or volunteer to attend. If you supervise someone whom you would like to see build their familiarity with LGBTQIA+ terms and concepts, please advise them to attend the LGBTQIA+ Identities (Ally Toolkit Part 1) workshop.

Affirming LGBTQIA+ Students and Colleagues – 360 Degree Strategies

Workshop Length: 60 – 75 Minutes

In this workshop we will work through a 360 degree series of strategies for creating gender and sexuality affirming offices, conversations, and classrooms.This workshop describes why it is important that we all do this work, and how affirming all LGBTQIA+ people also means affirming people of color, people with disabilities, undocumented people, and people of more than one marginalized identity. In this workshop, we’ll share how-to practices for doing our homework, practicing assumption-free language, hearing and affirming and using the language folks ask us to use for them, representing as well as intervening, and learning from mistakes, then beginning the cycle again.

This is a workshop for LGBQTIA+ people and straight people, transgender people, nonbinary people, and cisgender people, and people of more than one of these identities.

What Does a Thriving Queer Communities Look Like?, Presented by Peers for Pride

Workshop Length: 50 – 75 Minutes

“What does a thriving LGBTQIA+ communities look like?”

Each spring semester, UT student peer educators engage audiences in building answers to this question through performance-based workshops. Facilitators perform and engage audiences in discussion of fictional and realistic scenes of interrupting exclusion within and of queer communities on campus.

This workshop generates participants’ capacity to describe and imagine affirming intersectional communities of LGBTQIA+ people on campus, with the support of allyship of people who do not identify as LGBTQIA+, in order to make our campus a place where LGBTQIA+ students thrive.

Bisexuality, Pansexuality, Fluid Sexuality: Interrupting Monosexism

Workshop Length: 60 Minutes – 75 Minutes

In this workshop we will talk about bisexuality, pansexuality, and fluid sexuality, terms people use to describe their attraction to people of more than one gender. You will learn a little bit about the history and work of bisexual advocates, and you will build your understanding of and practice strategies for interrupting biphobia and bi-erasure (both inside and outside of LGBTQIA+ communities). We will brainstorm actions for supporting the work of bisexual, pansexual, and fluid advocates to make UT a more welcoming place for bisexual, pansexual, and fluid people.

Histories of & Accountability to Trans Feminisms

Workshop Length: 60 Minutes – 75 Minutes

In this workshop we will learn a little bit about the history and work of trans feminists as central to feminist movements, and we will build our understanding of and practice strategies for interrupting transphobia, transmisogyny, and cisgenderism (both inside and outside of feminist spaces). We will define terms and reflect on our own gender identities, gender-based privilege, and experiences of oppression in order to understand how transphobia, transmisogyny, and cisgenderism operate, how these oppressions are part of sexism, and how vital trans feminisms are to all feminist projects.

Identifying & Interrupting Everyday Intersectional Sexism

Workshop Length: 60 Minutes – 75 Minutes

Workshop participants will learn about and practice identifying how sexism affects each of us. We will discuss what sexism is, how—in large and small ways—it diminishes women’s and femme people’s quality of life, and how different women and femme people experience sexism differently. We will talk about how sexism affects people of all genders through social expectations about gender roles and gender expression. This interactive workshop also engages participants in describing how racism, homophobia, and transphobia amplify and are interconnected with sexism, and then offers practice interrupting moments of intersectional sexism in your daily life.

Intersectionality & Allyship

Workshop Length: 75 Minutes – 90 Minutes

Being an ally is an ongoing process of unlearning and re-evaluating. Allyship is an on-going journey and not an identity. Allyship is recognizing by whoever we choose to ally ourselves with. It is important that allyship is about creating platforms and spaces for those without privilege. ou will learn about and practice identifying how multiple systems of oppression (including racism, ableism, classism, and sexism) overlap with heterosexism and cisgenderism on our campus. In this interactive workshop, we will use intersectional approach to continue to be an intersectional ally.

In this workshop you will have the opportunity to create a practice of collaborating to make UT safer and more welcoming for transgender and gender nonconforming people. You will practice setting an expectation of using gender inclusive language, respecting and honoring each person’s own gender identity and expression, noticing and interrupting how stereotypes about race and ability amplify transphobia, supporting the work of transgender and gender non-conforming advocates, sharing information about UT policies, and complying with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

Throughout, we will build your understanding of and practice strategies for interrupting transphobia, transmisogyny, and cisgenderism (both inside and outside of LGBTQIA+ communities) in order to follow the leadership of trans advocates to make UT a more welcoming place for trans people.